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Ilene Graff
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Replaced
Carole Demas
as "Sandy" in the original Broadway production of "Grease" for two-and-a-half years.
In the year 1999, she spent her birthday helping to raise $45 million for the Variety Children's Club.
As a teenager, she worked as a studio singer doing background work and commercials.
It was during "Grease" that she met her future husband, musical director
Ben Lanzarone
, who sparked the move to the West Coast.
One of her and her husband's most favorite activities is to participate in the annual Cedar Rapids telethon.
Sings on cruise ships and at charity events; lives in Studio City, CA (June 2000)
Mother of
Nikka Graff Lanzarone
.
Attended Ithaca College in upstate New York, graduating in 1970.
Older sister of
Todd Graff
.
Her father is singer-arranger
Jerry Graff
, a featured singer with the top vocal group,
The Pied Pipers
.
Her mom, Judy, who died in 1988 of cancer, was a piano teacher.
Is the national spokesperson for the AMC Cancer Research Center in Denver.
Daughter,
Nikka Graff Lanzarone
, was born in November 1983.
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